Wendy C. Ortiz

07/06/2015

When I first read Wendy C. Ortiz’s Excavation: A Memoir, I was living in a house at the top of a hill overlooking the harbor. I sat on a couch in the lounge, reading in the sun while my friends watched My Girl. I had only just returned to New Zealand from a trip to…

Carolyn DeCarlo is the author of Strawberry Hill (Pangur Ban Party 2013) and Green Place (Enjoy Occasional Journal 2015) and co-author of two chapbooks, Twilight Zone (NAP 2013) and Bound: An Ode to Falling in Love (Compound Press 2015), with Jackson Nieuwland. She holds an MFA in Fiction from the University of Maryland.